AN IMPORTANT APPEAL CASE.
A BIASSED MAGISTRATE. Press Association— Br Telegraph— Copyright Melbourne, September 18. An appeal was recently lodged against the conviction of a hotelkeeper for selling on Sunday on the ground that Mr Loriner, J.P., who formed one of the Bench, had persisted in adjudicating in spite of a protest that he was biassed in the temperance interests. The full Court upheld the appeal, and ordered the case to be reheard. The Chief Justice, in delivering judgment, after referring to the finding of the Board appointed some time ago to enquire into charges against the Magistrates, said that if objection was taken where there was tangible ground for suspicion their duty was to retire at once. The Court thought there cculd not be a moment's doubt as to the impropriety of Mr Lormor's presence in this case. Furthermore, in the face of the findings of the Board and Mr Lormer's attitude in various matters, fair minded persons might come to the just suspicion that Mr Locmor was biassed, and such suspicion made his presence illegal.
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 9836, 20 September 1897, Page 5
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